WINNING MARBLES

     I learned early in life that girls are not supposed to win when neighborhood kids play marbles.      And if you do, it’s a good idea to high-tail it home a few steps ahead of irate boys intent on taking back your prized legal possessions.      Angered losers dare...

FRIENDS AND BB GUNS

     Growing up, there were no girls living on McKay Street to be my playmates. For a child, another street away such as Taylor Avenue, was a foreign world to which you did not wander. But McKay Street was a kingdom to explore from after school until time to go home...

THE LITTLE BLUE ELEPHANT

       Looking forward to small milestones has held my life together and sitting tiny reminders on a shelf has helped me focus on what I have achieved or remember what lies before me to accomplish. Some people do not need such reminders but I do. Some people need a...